Quotes by Famous Dead Composers...

[mazz]

Johannes Brahms - "Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind."

[mazz]

“Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy”Thelonious Monk

[mazz]

No one seems to be able to pin down who was the first to say this famous gem:"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture"Frank Zappa seems to get the most votes, but he may or may not have been the first.

[ggalen]

Oct 18, 2009, 1:07am, eokamura wrote:"Good composers borrow. Great composers steal." (Or something to that effect.) -BeethovenI think that was Igor Stravinsky, not Beethoven. And he took it from T.S Eliot, who said it about poets.

[anne]

No one seems to be able to pin down who was the first to say this famous gem:"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture"Isn't that our own Hummingbird?

[davekershaw]

"It was Salieri!"- MozartOh sorry, you meant before they were dead!“To compose music, all you have to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of”- Schumann"Stop Shouting!"- Beethoven

[hummingbird]

Oct 18, 2009, 8:42am, anne wrote:[blockquote]No one seems to be able to pin down who was the first to say this famous gem:'Talking about music is like dancing about architecture' [blockquote]Isn't that our own Hummingbird? nope, it's not me, I just borrowed it from Elvis Costello

[crystallions]

"There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it."Clara Schumann "Is an artist much more than a beggar?"Clara Schumann

[crystallions]

"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read."Frank Zappa"Music is always a commentary on society."Frank Zappa

[Mark Kaufman]

"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time."-Leonard Bernstein